Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Ver. 27. Ye shall not round.] Because the Arabians their neighbours did so, and they should not be conformed to idolaters. a Oleaster, a Popish interpreter, understandeth such a shaving here, as their priest use to bear. But shaving is so bald a ceremony, that some priests in France are ashamed of the mark, and few of them have it that can handsomely avoid it.
a Herod., in Thal.